What can a failed prophecy teach us about the mind and our inability to amend our beliefs in the face of new evidence?
Continue ReadingEach fall, the scientific community buzzes, waiting to hear who will win the awards for their inspiring and improbable research. No, not those awards…
Continue ReadingThe ability to reconcile with the unexpected is essential, especially in a post-pandemic world where the norms are shattered.
Continue ReadingPlants are helping fight COVID through vaccines.
Continue ReadingMicroneedle vaccine patches can deliver vaccines directly into the skin which presents a number of advantages over traditional needle delivery.
Continue ReadingVaccine rumors have a story to tell and it might be time to listen.
Continue ReadingThe World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic just over a year ago, but many Americans are optimistic about the coming months. The United States has now purchased enough…
Continue ReadingWhat is this new COVID vaccine? Is it safe to get?
Continue ReadingAn illustrated guide to the coronavirus and its variants.
Continue ReadingScientists warned policy makers about a global pandemic for years, and we were still unprepared. What other predictions are scientists making that we should be reacting to?
Continue ReadingWhat happens after you recover from COVID-19? A new study in Italy examines the psychological effects of the novel coronavirus following recovery.
Continue ReadingEmphasizing the importance of nutrition in fighting COVID
Continue ReadingConsuming news in such high quantities, especially during the COVID-19 era, is sure to have lasting effects. How has media consumption changed and how concerned do we need to be about our addiction to being constantly informed?
Continue ReadingFemale scientists seem to be publishing less during the pandemic. Exploring the reasons behind this reveals potential long-term implications for the progress of diversity in science as a result of COVID-19.
Continue ReadingHow do epidemiologists determine the time course of a pandemic? And what are the COVID-19 models telling us?
Continue ReadingWhat are the effects of chronic vaping on the respiratory immune system? Using a mouse model, the authors showed that vaping decreases respiratory immune responses to viral infection, which could have implications for susceptibility to COVID-19 in people who vape.
Continue ReadingMy article is about COVID-19 and what it is, how to slow it down, how to understandthe anxiety from the pandemic, and how to survive together.
Continue ReadingWhile COVID-19 scare is still going on, this article focuses on the bats that have started it all – Why the bats are able to withstand viruses that make humans sick?
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